In New
Orleans, aviculturists wearing crane costumes round up an endangered
Mississippi sandhill crane before transporting it and its fellow cranes
to the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier.

Sixty-two-year-old Maria
Garcia gives her dog a look at her "home" in Medellin, Colombia. She and
her husband have resided in the city sewer for more than 20 years.
Their living space is 10 feet long by 7 feet wide by 4.5 feet high.

as an activist sticks a
flower in his face at a demonstration marking International Human
Rights Day in Asuncion, Paraguay. The demonstrators were protesting the
treatment of prisoners and witnesses involved in "the Massacre of
Curuguaty," a violent land eviction on June 15 that left 11 peasants and
six police officers dead.